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ARTICLE OF STQREFURNITURE. APPLICATION FILED 'D-EG. 14, 1906.

PATENTED MAR. 19, 1907.

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JOSEPH LANTAGNE, or oENTEAL FiiLLs, RHODE ISLAND,

ARTICLE OF STORE FURNITURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 19, 1907.

Application filed December 14,1905. Serial No. 291,770.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH LANTAGNE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Central Falls, in the county of Providence and State ofRhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inArticles of Store Furniture; and I do declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention relates to improvements in articles of furniture and moreparticularly to that class used by butchers and other merchants inmarkets, stores, and the like.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive,durable, and efficient refrigerator of this character in which itscontents may be readily moved out of the same upon sliding tables orsupports when it is desired to cut or otherwise handle said contents.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists ofcertain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement ofdevices, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of arefrigerator constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is anend elevation of the same with parts in section. Fig. 3 is a detailvertical transverse sectional view. 4 is a detail vertical longitudinalsectional view, and Fig. 5 is a detail horizontal sectional view.

Referring to the drawings by numeral, 1 denotes the body or casing ofthe refrigerator, which may be of any form and construction, but whichis here shown as supported upon a suitable base 2. The body or casing 1is of substantially rectangular form and is divided centrally by ahorizontal partition 3 into an upper ice compartment or chamber 4 and alower compartment or chamber 5, in which the meats, dairy products,vegetables, fruits, or other food or material to be preserved areplaced. Suitable doors 6 are provided, preferably at the ends of thecompartment 4, so that the latter may be filled with ice, and suitabledrain connections are also provided for carrying off the water. The coldair in the upper compartment 4 passes downwardly through the latterthrough openings in the partition 3 and circulates in the compartment 5.The food or other subports 7 are preferably and as here shown ofrectangular form and are mounted to slide forwardly and rearwardly inT-shaped guides 9, secured upon the bottom 10 by bolts or the like 11and having their flanged upper portions 12 overhanging the side edges ofthe tables or supports 7, which slide between them, as clearly shown inFig. 4 of the drawings. The tables or supports 7 preferably rest andslide upon supporting-rollers 13, which are arranged at suitableintervals adjacent to the guides 9 and have their journals 14 mounted inball-bearings 15, arranged in recesses 16, formed in the bottom 10, asseen in Fig.4 7

In order to support the front or outer edge of the tables 7 when thelatter are moved out of the compartment 5 through its open front,

I preferably provide each of them with a supporting-leg 17. The latteris secured by means of an angle-bracket 18 or any other suitablefastening in a recess formed in the center of the front edge of one ofthe tables 7 and has upon its lower end a caster-wheel or the like 19,which runs upon the floor or other support.

The doors 8 may be of any desired form and construction; but Ipreferably mount them so that they slide vertically in guides 20,arranged at the front ends of the guides 19, between the bottom 10 andthe front portion of the upper compartment of the body. As clearly shownin Fig. 5 of the drawings, the sash-frames 21 of the doors slide in theopposite channeled faces of the guide-strips 20, and they are covered bya double layer of glass or other transparent material 22, so that thecontents of the refrigerator may be inspected without raising the doors.By mounting the doors 8 so that they slide vertically, as shown, any onemay be elevated,

so that the table 7 in rear of the same may be drawn out of thecompartment 5, and said door may be then lowered to prevent the escapeof cold air from and the entrance of hot air into the refrigerator,while the meat or other food upon the extended table may be cut,chopped, or otherwise handled. To permit the table 7 to be moved intothe compartment 5, so that it will not interfere with the closing of thedoor 8, the bottom 10 is recessed, as shown at 23, to receive thesupporting-leg 17.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the construction, use, and advantages of theinvention will be readily understood without requiring a more extendedexplanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details ofconstruction may be resortedto Without departing from the principle orsacrificing any of the advantages of the invention as defined by theappended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

An article of furniture having a plurality of compartments disposed sideby side and having a common bottom, the outer end of which projects fromsaid compartments and is pro vided with recesses, T-shaped guides secured on the bottom, between the compartments, vertical guides at theouter ends of the T-shaped guides and also between the compartments,tables in the bottoms of the compartments, separated, and having theirside edges partly overlapped by the T-shaped guides and each having asupporting-leg movable therewith and fitting in one of said ,recesses inthe bottom, when the table is I moved into its compartment, andvertically movable doors for the compartments operating in the verticalguides, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

J OS EPH LAN TAGN E.

\Vitnesses:

Osclmv 0. Z. SonrLLEn, EDMOND DEROUER.

